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Spunk
13th Aug 2006, 16:09
Planning a trip to the Netherlands. What would be the minimum altitudes for a VFR-flight (over land, water, cities)? Exemptions?

212man
13th Aug 2006, 23:24
I guess 500 ft AMSL should give you at least 1000 ft clearance from most things!;)

Bat-Off
14th Aug 2006, 02:11
Ha-Ha, Priceless! :D

Wanna-be
14th Aug 2006, 12:19
he's right 500 ft for open terrain and 1000 ft for cities. I found it on a site of a dutch helicopter school. they should know it.

JimL
14th Aug 2006, 12:43
212man,

Isn't it a pity when clever irony goes unnoticed?

Jim

Wanna-be
14th Aug 2006, 13:45
I do get it, but i tried to ignore it :rolleyes:

HillerBee
14th Aug 2006, 14:28
http://www.ivw.nl/nl/Images/Brochure%20Visual%20Flight%20Rules_tcm5-2321.pdf

This is the official source.

Bat-Off
14th Aug 2006, 21:13
I do get it, but i tried to ignore it :rolleyes:

What do you expect mate? In the end it's your duty and no one elses to update yourself with flight rules.

Wanna-be
15th Aug 2006, 10:30
What do you expect mate? In the end it's your duty and no one elses to update yourself with flight rules.

hu? I dont understand, I was talking about the joke that Holland lies under seelevel (at least a big part of it)

212man
15th Aug 2006, 10:33
Jim, it's okay: I'm used to it!

Spunk
15th Aug 2006, 13:18
It really didn't matter that much. The weather was ****y on the way out and on the way back. I had a hard time to maintain 500 ft AGL. (now that would be what... 300' MSL???). Actually, upon landing the altimeter indeed was reading below 0:confused:

Wanna-be
15th Aug 2006, 13:29
yes we have dikes and dunes to stop the water from flushing into the countrie, we will have a serious problem if they break (It did happen years ago)
but this is kind of offtopic